Sr. Hardware Engineer (Teradyne, Oregon)

About the role

The Senior Hardware Engineer in the hardware group is responsible for designing, developing, and validating high-current, high-power sourcing and switching hardware used in semiconductor automated test equipment. This role focuses on power delivery architecture, fast transient response, load regulation, protection systems, thermal management, and system-level integration to support advanced SoCs, FPGAs, high-power devices, and complex test conditions.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design high-current power delivery modules (from mA to 100+ A) for ATE systems.
• Develop fast-response voltage/current sourcing circuits optimized for dynamic load conditions, droop control, and transient performance.
• Implement advanced power-stage topologies (buck, multiphase, linear, hybrid) tailored for semiconductor test environments.
• Design for wide operating ranges, including high-voltage rails, low-voltage/high-current rails, and dynamic voltage scaling.
• Optimize power integrity across the full PDN (instrumentation → cabling → loadboard → DUT).
• Model and mitigate droop, overshoot, ringing, and ground bounce under fast load steps.
• Perform simulation and analysis of loop stability, compensation networks, and transient response.
• Ensure compliance with DUT power-up sequencing, ramp rates, and timing constraints.
• Design robust protection systems including OCP, OVP, OTP, short-circuit protection, and fault-isolation mechanisms.
• Implement fast fault-response circuits to protect sensitive DUTs and ATE hardware.
• Conduct reliability analysis, derating studies, and thermal modeling for long-term stability.
• Support HALT/HASS, stress testing, and failure-mode investigations.
• Develop efficient high-current solutions for routing power to multiple DUT pins or sites.
• Engineer low-impedance, low-loss paths for high-current delivery with attention to thermal and mechanical constraints.
• Collaborate with mechanical teams on heatsinking, airflow, and thermal interface design.
• Lead bring-up of new power-delivery modules, performing root-cause analysis of analog, digital, and mixed-signal issues.
• Execute characterization plans for load regulation, transient response, efficiency, thermal behavior, and fault handling.
• Use advanced lab equipment (power analyzers, high-bandwidth scopes, current probes, electronic loads) to validate performance.
• Ensure power-delivery modules meet ATE system-level requirements for timing, triggering, synchronization, and software control.
• Collaborate with firmware teams on control loops, telemetry, calibration, and fault-reporting algorithms.
• Create and use ATE test programs to validate instrument and system level designs.
• Support integration with loadboards, probecards, and DUT power-delivery networks.
• Work with product engineering, test engineering, and silicon teams to define power-delivery requirements for new devices.
• Provide technical mentorship and contribute to power-delivery design standards and best practices.

Requirements

• 8-10+ years of experience in power electronics, high-current power delivery, or instrumentation hardware design.
• Strong expertise in switching power supplies, multiphase regulators, linear regulators, and power-stage design.
• Experience with power integrity, transient analysis, and compensation/stability design.
• Proficiency with SPICE simulation, PDN modeling tools, and PCB design tools.
• Hands-on experience with power measurement equipment and high-current test setups.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Experience designing power-delivery modules for ATE instrumentation.
• Knowledge of dynamic voltage scaling, digital power control, and telemetry systems.
• Familiarity with high-current connectors, cabling, and low-impedance mechanical design.
• Understanding of thermal modeling, heatsink design, and system-level thermal constraints.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.

Skills

• Power electronics
• High-current power delivery
• Instrumentation hardware design
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity
• Transient analysis
• SPICE simulation
• PDN modeling tools
• PCB design tools
• Power measurement equipment
• High-current test setups
• Power integrity